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A woman wearing yellow blouse looks at images of men on a computer screen

A 26-year manhunt for Rwandan genocide fugitive ends

Justice

“Félicien Kabuga has always been one of the most wanted fugitives,” said Serge Brammertz, chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. “He has always been considered as being one of the masterminds in relation to the genocide” in Rwanda.

A soldier hands food to a woman.

Lessons from the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide it failed to stop

Alexis Sinduhije, Samantha Power and Bryan Rich at the Committee to Protect Journalists awards in 2004

Burundi exile to US’s Samantha Power: ‘You shake the hand of the killers’

Conflict
Casimir Bizimungu, Rwanda’s Minister of Health, has been living in a safe house in Arusha, Tanzania since his acquittal by an international tribunal there of charges related to the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda. He has no passport, his family has re

Acquitted of genocide, a handful of Rwandans live a life in limbo

Justice
Acleo Mugisha is a producer at Radio KFM in Kigali, Rwanda.

Rwandans are tuning in to a different sort of radio this April

Lifestyle & Belief
Acleo Mugisha is a producer at Radio KFM in Kigali, Rwanda.

Rwandans are tuning in to a different sort of radio this April

Lifestyle & Belief

Switch on the radio in Rwanda in April and you’re likely to hear programming that commemorates those killed in the 1994 genocide. Acleo Mugisha, a producer at Radio KFM in Kigali says young Rwandans are turning to new sorts of music to mark the genocide’s 20th anniversary.

A genocide survivor and her children.

Part III: Born of genocide

Conflict & Justice

Many Rwandan women who are genocide survivors are also rape survivors. Thousands of them bore children as a result and those children, and their mothers, now live at the margins of Rwandan society.

The World

Congolese general arrested

Conflict & Justice

Rwandan authorities have arrested renegade Congolese general, Laurent Nkunda. He’s the leader of a Tutsi rebel force in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Anchor Marco Werman gets the story from the BBC’s Peter Greste.

The World

Global Hit

Arts, Culture & Media

The World’s Marco Werman has details on the 15-year sentence handed to Rwandan singer Simon Bikindi for his role in the country’s 1994 genocide.

The World

Congo’s rebel leader

Conflict & Justice

The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country again in turmoil. The latest violence involves a rebel general named Laurent Nkunda. Nkunda’s managed to take over large swathes of eastern Congo with a small band of well-trained soldiers.